Be a master through ancient times

Some people say that the exam is a very boring thing. Sitting in such a small room for a few days, can't eat well and sleep well. In addition to facing a steady stream of exam questions, you also have to worry about your future.

Chu Ci thought so too, but now he feels that if there is anything more boring than exams in the world, it is the invigilator.At least you can use your brain to do the questions in the exam. The proctors are like donkeys pulling the mill, turning around in their respective divided areas, which is not interesting at all.

In modern times, Chu Ci took a test for no more than two and a half hours, but now, a test lasts for three days.Although the deputy chief examiner and above can go back to the post house to rest every night, but the chief examiner Zhang Songnian lives in this tribute courtyard, so they naturally have to stay here.

Mr. Zhang is very dedicated. He has to patrol the examination room at least twice a day. He can go as he pleases, and he has to bring a few deputy examiners with him every time. Chu Ci and the others are also forced to follow a lot of roads.Walking down the first day, the feet of the deputy chief examiner were all blistered, and he grimaced in pain when washing his feet at night, and he didn't get better until he applied medicine.Chu Ci is not as fragile as him, but it is indeed quite tiring. The area of ​​the Nanjiang Gongyuan is the largest in the Great Wei Dynasty, which is almost equivalent to the area of ​​a Guozijian. It goes around the Guozijian twice a day. People with average physical strength can only breathe. .

Fortunately, Mr. Zhang himself was a little tired, so he divided the examination room into five parts, and it was enough for each deputy chief examiner to take two invigilators to take charge of one of them.In this way, their workload is greatly reduced.

Chu Ci's luck is not very good. The area he is in charge of is close to the latrine. As long as a gust of wind blows, you can faintly smell the smell of urine and stench, which makes people pale and just want to cover it all the time. Hold your nose to prevent the smell from invading your fragile nasal cavity.

The invigilators are all like this, and the students feel even more uncomfortable.The exam also pays attention to the right time, place and people. The right place refers to the test number on the test room. There are many test numbers, and people are most afraid of getting them.It is the rain number and the toilet number.

This year's sunshine is just right, candidates who are assigned the rain number will have no worries, but those who are assigned the toilet number will be even more difficult.As soon as some candidates entered the arena and saw the hut next to their seats, all thoughts were completely lost, and they couldn't even think about the mental exam at all.

Seeing this situation, Chu Ci had nothing to do. The test numbers were randomly assigned, and those who were assigned to such a place could only consider themselves unlucky.However, Chu Ci still instructed them to empty the pail frequently, and then scrub it with plant ash after emptying it, so as to avoid the smell from adding to the smell as much as possible.

Time passed by in this unbearable stench. Once three days came, the examination papers were taken back. After Chuci checked the number of examination papers in his own area, he stuffed them into a box, sealed them, and ordered someone to send them to the inside. Curtain, so that they can copy the papers as soon as possible, so as not to affect the follow-up marking work.

In the second round, Chu Ci was able to change his guard, and after staying away from the toilet, his mood improved a little.During the inspection tour, you can also distract yourself from looking at the test papers of the candidates.I don't know if it's because the outstanding candidates didn't sit here or what happened. After reading a few of them, Chu Ci felt dissatisfied.Not to mention the clumsy writing of some articles, even the titles are sometimes unclear after review, which is far away from the correct meaning.

To be honest, the exam questions this time are not too difficult in the eyes of Chu Ci. The questions are quite satisfactory, and the intercepted parts are all the more famous chapters in the Four Books and Five Classics, so that people can see the source at a glance.Perhaps it was because people often heard people say how powerful Nanjiang students were, so Chu Ci inevitably had high expectations for them. Now that they are not as good as he expected, he will inevitably be greatly disappointed.

In the third exam, Chu Ci changed to another place.This time he finally saw some exam papers with good answers during the inspection tour. Although there were only a few words exposed, it was enough to show how solid the knowledge of these candidates was.The other two invigilators had the same feelings as Chu Ci, but it was a pity that they couldn't stay in one place for too long, so they could only leave regretfully.

The nine-day examination time passed in a flash, and when the closing gong of the last examination sounded, it meant that the rural examination had come to an end.

After all the examination papers were collected, the gate of the Gongyuan was opened, and the people who went out were exhausted, and their relatives had been waiting by the side, ready to help them at any time.

Chu Ci looked at them and remembered how he was back then.Before he knew it, he had been here for almost five years.When he first arrived, he often returned to the modern times when he dreamed back at midnight, but as time went by, he had less and less memories of the past.Sometimes he would think, is everything in the previous life just a dream?In fact, he was originally a young man born and raised in the Great Wei Dynasty, but he strayed into other people's dreams and lived his life in such a fantasy way. After waking up from the dream, everything returned to normal...

"Master Chu, Master Zhang has something to say, come here quickly!"

Chu Ci's rare sadness was interrupted by a few shouts from a distance, and he immediately walked back after hearing it.After the township examination, the candidates' tasks have been completed, but their work has just begun.

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After more than ten days of devil-like life of grading papers, Chu Ci lost a lot of weight, and his official uniform, which was not very close to the body, was even more empty. Occasionally, he was blown by the wind when he was walking, which made him look a little strange. The beauty of the weak willow and the wind is gone.

The reason for this is that Nanjiang Province has a large number of candidates, and their workload is almost double that of other provinces.In order to finish correcting the examination papers on time and report the list of whistleblowers within the stipulated time, these people basically work day and night, and only take a break when they can't stand it anymore.Then the heavy work was on my body, and I couldn't rest peacefully even when I was resting. I often woke up after two or three hours of sleep, and then I got up and went to the study to start grading papers.

Chu Ci would not have worked so hard in the first place, but among the five deputy examiners, he was the youngest one.If he doesn't do more, those people will suffer more.He is still young, it's nothing to be tired for a while, but those people are different, if something bad happens from being tired, it will be bad.

Others also felt Chu Ci's good intentions, and they inevitably felt a little complicated in their hearts.It stands to reason that respecting the old and loving the young has always been a traditional Chinese virtue, but in the officialdom, no one would take this sentence to heart.When everyone is used to the life of intrigue and intrigue, facing pure kindness, they feel a little uncomfortable.

However, they would still reciprocate. After finishing the work, they agreed to let Chu Ci go home and rest first.Chu Ci was still a little reluctant, but when they ordered his servants to bring the bronze mirror and let Chu Ci take a look at himself, he agreed.At this time, Chu Ci had fully understood what kind of state kidney deficiency was. In the mirror, his eyes were black and blue, his cheeks were sunken, his face was pale and weak, and he looked like a consumptive ghost.

Fortunately, the examination papers have been corrected, and fortunately, some mistakes and omissions in the examination papers have been found out, otherwise, marking the papers will only become more difficult.Thinking of this, Chu Ci shed tears deeply for the grassroots staff. Their work is obviously more cumbersome than his own.

After returning to the room, Zhang Hu hurriedly greeted him, brought down the chicken soup that had been warming on the stove, and brought it to Chu Ci with a distressed expression.

"Master, hurry up and drink it. There are ginseng slices and wolfberry in it. The doctor said it's the best way to nourish your body."

Chu Ci took a sip of the chicken soup: "Dahu, thank you, if you weren't here, I guess your master and I would have passed away."

Zhang Hu gave Zhang Hu a disapproving look in exchange for his unrestrained words. Seeing that he was going to speak, Chu Ci immediately changed his words: "No, no, sir, I will live a long life, and I will live a good life."

Only then did Zhang Hu nod his head, and urged Chu Ci to drink up all the chicken soup before giving up.After drinking the chicken soup, Chu Ci washed his body casually, then fell on the bed, and fell into a dark sleep. He was much more tired than he was when he was in the country test.

He slept from noon the day before until the evening of the next day.After waking up, Chu Ci stretched, stretched his arms and moved, and was pleasantly surprised to find that most of his spirit had recovered.In addition to getting enough sleep, Chu Ci thought that Du Hu's chicken soup in those few days was also indispensible.

Because Chuci had already told Dahu that he wanted to have a good rest, even though Dahu was worried that he would be hungry if he slept for too long, he didn't knock on the door to disturb his sleep.

At this time, he was sitting at the door of Chu Ci with a worried face, listening to the movement inside with his ears up.When he heard the sound of Chu Ci getting up, he immediately ran over, knocking on the door and shouting "Master".

Chu Ci hurriedly opened the door, and seeing Zhang Hu's ignorant eyes filled with worry, his heart immediately warmed up.

"Dahu, master is fine, don't worry."

Zhang Hu grinned: "I knew the master would be healed after drinking the chicken soup, so I boiled another pot and put it on the stove to warm it up. I'll go and bring it to you, master."

"Don't be busy, the master hasn't washed yet, we'll eat later." Chu Ci held Zhang Hu back, "Have you eaten yourself? If not, go and eat some."

Zhang Hu wanted to say he wasn't hungry, but his stomach was already growling.Zhang Hu frowned and rubbed his stomach, and finally decided to listen to the master's advice and go eat first.

Chu Ci tidied himself up and went to the kitchen. As soon as he entered the door, he found Zhang Hu sitting at the table eating steamed buns and pickling vegetables.Judging from the hardness of the steamed bun, it should have been steamed yesterday.At this time, there was no heat on the steamed buns, but the pot of chicken soup on the stove was quietly gurgling and smoking.

"Da Hu." As soon as Chu Ci uttered his voice, Zhang Hu hurriedly stuffed the steamed bun in his hand into his mouth, and responded vaguely.

Chu Ci sighed, and poured him a glass of water from the teapot on the table, Zhang Hu gratefully took it, gulped it down, and finally swallowed the steamed bun.

"Dahu, how many times have you eaten this steamed bun?" After Chu Ci finished speaking, he paused, and added, "Don't lie to me."

Seeing Chu Ci's straight face, Zhang Hu was a little scared: "Four, four meals."

Chu Ci was helpless, it seemed that since he fell asleep yesterday afternoon, Zhang Hu hadn't had a serious meal.Obviously the chicken soup is already boiled and put there, but I can't remember to drink a bowl first.Facing Zhang Hu's somewhat apprehensive expression, Chu Ci sighed again, such a childlike heart, how can one really bear to blame him?

He got up without saying a word, which made Zhang Hu's heart skip a beat. He thought that the master was so angry with him that he didn't want to talk to him anymore. He just wanted to follow, but found that Chu Ci had returned, and he quickly sat down again.

There were two more bowls of chicken soup on the empty table. Chu Ci handed a spoon to Zhang Hu. Zhang Hu was about to wave his hand when Chu Ci said, "Dahu, do you want to stay with the master?"

Zhang Hu nodded vigorously, his eyes full of longing: "I want to take care of the master all the time!"

"Well, then from now on, you must remember to be good to yourself. Only when you are well can the master be well. If your body collapses, no one can take care of the master. At that time, the master will not want you, understand Yet?"

I don't know why, but the master's tone is obviously very fierce, but Zhang Hu feels his heart is up, some want to cry and some want to laugh.